My father died, and anyone who thinks that hope died in Israel with the death of Amos Oz did not really know him. Because he knew we could go on. He invented with his words a kind of invention so hope would not die

Meir Margalit studied Jewish emigration from Palestine during the British Mandate. It had numerous causes — economic distress, the precarious security situation and even the Zionist movement’s cruelty toward the sick and the old — but its effect on the...